Kenyatta University is hosting Uganda’s president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
All students were expected to attend the ‘important function’ that will was scheduled to start at 2pm according to a memo seen.
As a result of the lecture,examinations that were scheduled to take place on Friday have been pushed to Monday, April 8, 2019.
Museveni landed in the country on Wednesday afternoon and is on a state visit to Kenya that is aimed at consolidating beneficial cooperation between the two countries at bilateral and multilateral levels.
They have condemned and demanded the release of fellow academic Stella Nyanzi who has been in jail for months,
Stellah staged a half nude protest against Mahmood Mamdani, Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research after being locked out of her office for refusing to teach; a requirement outside of her contract.
On the night of 7 April, 2017, as she left the Rotary Club in Kampala after giving a talk, Dr Nyanzi was arrested by plainclothes police officers and held in custody and charged in court three days later. It was stated that she engaged in “cyber harassment” and “offensive communication” contrary to the Computer Misuse Act of 2011.